Academics

Courses: Writing, Sound, and Modernity (ENGLH371A01)

A textual, cultural, and historical study of transforming ideas about writing, sound, and their relationship to one another. The course's focus will be the United States of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, but will also include relevant British and Continental works. Frames of study will include dialect literature, poetics and orality, urbanization, technologies of reproduction, theory and philosophy of cognition.